iPhone 8 leaks reveal the X factor of Apple’s 10th anniversary device

Over a billion
On July 27, 2016, Apple sold its one-billionth iPhone. As at the end of March, Statista pegs that figure to be at 1.16 billion. Though no official figures are there, it's a foregone conclusion that that number is definitely higher.

Apple's best iPhone year was in 2015 - the year the bridges the iPhone 6 and 6s models - when it sold 231.22 million units.

Ever noticed that in every iPhone advert, the time is always 9:41? The reason is simple: Jobs introduced the original iPhone at exactly that time back in 2007.

Former iOS boss Scott Forstall then explained this further in 2010.

"We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience's watches. But we know we won't hit 40 minutes exactly."

So, that.

With or without you...
In the old Music app, notice the icon of Artists. That silhouette is of Bono, the lead singer of British rock band U2.

Well, with or without Bono (pun intended), the Music app still works well.

Best of frenemies
Apple and Samsung don't like each other - trying to one-up the other in mobiles, the commercial jabs, the lawsuits - but there is at least one area that they actually help each other on.

And that's the processors embedded inside iPhones. Experts who have studied the 'A' chips found out that, apparently, it's being made by the South Korean company. Isn't it ironic?

By the way, the Retina Displays on iPads are made by Samsung, too. Those on the MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPod Touch are from LG Display and Japan Display.

The miracle of 2007
The original iPhone that Jobs showed off in 2007 (the same one he used to "order" 4,000 lattes) was a prototype.

So, naturally, Apple's engineers waited in horror to see what kind of glitch it would run into. In front of a live audience.

Fortunately - and, surprisingly - nothing amiss happened. For the next five months though - between the launch and hitting shelves - these Apple engineers went overdrive in perfecting the device.

Also, the first choice for the original iPhone's display was plastic. But they decided to switch to glass, because Jobs didn't like all those scratches.